As you say, this program looks essentially that in Gould,
Pitblado and Sribney (p. 57). I can't see any
typos. I wondered if there would be difficulties
if `leta' were ever negative in your data, but
Stata does the right thing with e.g. exp(--2).
So I am reduced to the old advice
Say exactly what you typed and exactly what Stata typed
(or did) in response. N.B. exactly! If you can, reproduce
the error with one of Stata's provided datasets or a simple
concocted dataset that you include in your posting.
Nick
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> now I am at a loss as to the proper
> implementation of the Weibull MLE program supplied by Gould,
> Pitblado, & Scribney when I have a single vector of data
> (survival time). The program I'm using is pasted below:
> program weib1
> version 8.2
> args lnf leta lgam
> tempvar p M R
> quietly {
> gen double `p' = exp(`lgam')
> gen double `M' = ($ML_y1*exp(-`leta'))^`p'
> gen double `R' = ln($ML_y1)-`leta'
> replace `lnf' = -`M'+$ML_y2*(`lgam'-`leta'+(`p'-1)*`R')
> }
> end
>
> This program executes without problem when used on the 'cancer'
> dataset (with some modification to the variable 'drug' of
> course) that is accessible from within Stata but terminates in
> error on my dataset with 'invalid syntax'. My question is
> this: what am I overlooking from a programming perspective?
> My objective is estimation of theta & beta and -nlcom- will
> accomplish this, however, I wish to take the scenic route on
> this one thus my desire to do this with Stata's -ml- commands.
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